CONNECTIONS
FEATURES
BLAIS ON THE WEB
LEARNING ROOM
ELECTRONIC RESERVES
COMPUSTAT
STAFF NEWS
SUBJEct SPECIALISTS
PERIODICAL CONTENTS INDEX
LITERATURE ONLINE (LION)
CARD CATALOG
EXHIBITS
a newsletter from the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges
FALL 1997 Volume 8 Number 1
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Two years ago in this column, I wrote about "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" (http://voxlibris.claremonLedu/Libawareness/Library2000.html).This document was developed by members of Library Council in 1994/95, and accepted by the Council ofPresidents in Fall of 1995. Since then, "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" has been used as a guide to help us achieve a balance between an increasing emphasis on the electronic library and the need for continued support of the traditional library. Specifically, we have held before us the vision of using the World Wide Web as a central unifying force for our information services and resources. At the same time, we have concentrated on increasing the number ofstaff who assist users of our services as well as on improving access to information resources for support of learning and teaching.
At the time it was written, the goals and plans espoused in the "Establishing" document seemed difficult to achieve by the year 2000. Nevertheless, we have made significant progress in two short years. This progress is the direct result of strong support by the Council of Presidents, support that is evident not only through increases to the Libralies' operating and materials budgets, but also by the Presidents' commitment to the fund raising campaign for the Libraries.
Operating budget increases beginning in 1995/96 have allowed us to add the equivalent of 3.5 full-time permanent positions as well as fund ongoing technology expenses. Inflationary increases have provided solid support for maintaining purchasing power of the materials budget. With grant funds from the Ahmanson Foundation, we have positioned ourselves to take advantage of Web technology by substantially upgrading the wiring infrastructure in the Libraries, replacing both public access equipment and library servers, and adding Web-based modules to our library systems along with a number ofnew electronic resources. All but one ofour major resources are now offered via a Web interface. In addition, W. M. Keck Foundation funds are being used to build a state-of-the-art library learning room, establish a virtual reserve reading room, and fund three new, temporary positions which will allow us to focus on improving instruction, digitizing many of our unique resources, and improving our Web technical support. Other campaign funds raised thus far by the Colleges will endow Western Americana, government publications, and other resources as well as provide for substantial improvements in housing our traditional collections through the purchase and installation of compact shelving in Honnold/Mudd Library.
Although we are not yet half-way through the five year period covered in the "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" planning document, it is time to do more than simply take stock and enumerate our achievements. This Fall, I will put before Library Council and Libraries staff the challenge ofreviewing, revising, and refining our plans for the Year 2000. With the help of our entire community, we will stlive to achieve the same rate of improvements to services and resources in the next three years that we have experienced in the past two. m-
Bonnie Clemens Director ofLibraries, ext. 18045 bclemens@rocky.claremont.edu
DENISON HONNOLD/MUDD SEELEY G. MUDD SCIENCE SPRAGUE
Blais on the Web
What happened to the Blais terminals?
If you've come into any of the Libraries lately, you've probably noticed that the Blais terminals in the search centers are gone. But Blais has not disappeared! In the main search centers, we have replaced "dumb terminals" with PC workstations which allow web-based access for searching Blais, Ovid, FirstSearch and our other electronic resources. You will see plain old Blais terminals in other parts of the buildings which allow you to look up a call number without having to run down four flights of stairs.
Is it still Blais?
Yes, it is. First introduced in 1990, and named after Colleges founder James Blaisdell, Blais is starting its eighth year as the Libraries' online public access catalog (OPAC). Each year has brought improvements to the catalog as we've tried to meet the needs of our users. In recent years, we've
expanded keyword searching capabilities, introduced patron initiated renewal for borrowed library
materials, and begun offering email notification of recall and overdue notices.
We are now stepping up to the plate to take advantage of the po~er of the World Wide Web. InnovatIve Interfaces, Inc. (III), who makes the software that is Blais, is moving quickly to an entirely web-based, Java-enabled system. The online catalog, which they call Webpac, came out last year and we made that available as soon as we could. Other modules, including acquisitions, serials, circulation, and cataloging, wilI be installed over the next three years. III is committed to this "path to the Millennium," as they like to call it, and we are conunitted to going with them.
Does it look and behave like the old Blais?
Although it does look different from old Blais, you still use the same categories (author, title, subject, keyword, etc.) to search for materials in our Libraries. And Blais on the Web has important enhancements beyond its "point-and-click" functional ity.
The World Wide Web now makes it possible to gain access to resources located anywhere in the world. Blais is becoming more than just a listing of books, journal titles, governmcnt publications, and Special Collections that we have here in Claremont; it is our gateway to the world (wide web) of scholarly
information. As we add URLs (uniform resource locators­addresses of rcsources available on the web) into catalog records for electronic journals and other web­based resources that we subscribe to, those hypertext links in Blais bring to your desktop the full-text of articles complete with images, graphs and
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The interaction of our Ovid system, which provides access to many journal citation databases, and Blais is another compelling
reason for having Blais on the web. Our journal holdings statements (for example, "Honnold has v.1
(1969)-; Denison has CURRENT YEAR ONLY") are pulled from Blais into Ovid records, allowing our users to see right away whether or not we have the journal they are interested in and which volumes we own. And if we have a subscription to that journal in an electronic format on the Web, a hypertext link allows you to move directly from the Ovid citation to full-text on the web.
These are exciting, challenging and changing times! We want to take advantage of the Web and use Web technology to enhance our online catalog and our other electronic resources. But if you still want character-based access to our online catalog, it is available: telnet:// library.claremont.edu, login is library, type b for Blais, v then y. m
Kimberly Mosshart, Information Technology, ext 18014 lanosshart@rocky.claremont.edu
Candace Czerwinski, 1nformation Technology. ext. 77848 czerwinski@rocky.claremont.edu
Keck Learning 'Room Begins Constructiotn
You and your students have consistently told us that providing hands-on instruction in the use ofour electronic resources would greatly enhance the Libraries' instructional program. This Fall construction will begin on the Keck Learning Room, a state-of-the-art faci Iity whjch wi11 bring the opportunity for hands-on learning to the Libraries.
The Keck Learning Room, which will be used for instruction in use of library resources, will be located adjacent to the Search Center in Honnold/Mudd, just south of the multi-tier stack. When completed, it will provide sixteen hands-on workstations with seating for thirty­two students, projection equipment for data and video, a satellite downlink for teleconferencing, and additional workstations for multimedia viewing and authoring.
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Since construction will be going on during fall semester, you are likely to think the Search Cen~er rather noisy at times. We apologize for the disturbance and trust that you will find our new Learning Room well worth the noise when it is complete. .
The Keck Learning Room IS made possible by a grant focused on learning through the Libraries from the W. M. Keck Foundation. ~
Gale Burrow Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 73987 gburrow@rocky.claremont.edu
For more
CONNECTIONS
information,
visit our home page:
http://voxlibris.c1aremont.edu
then choose
LIBRARY INFORMATION
Electronic Course Reserves
As the Fall semester begins, the Libraries are preparing to provide a pilot group of web-based electronic course reserve materials for the use of students, faculty and staff ofThe Claremont Colleges. We are using a program called ERes, the Electronic Reserve System, from Docu­tek Information Systems. At present, we are installing equipment, developing procedures, and training staff to use and support the ERes system for scanning documents and creating course pages.
ERes is a World Wide Web application that allows us to ~ake documents in many formats available electronically. You can view a test installation of this system at http://www-test.scu.edu/eres.
ERes organizes documents (for example, journal articles, homewo~'k solutions, and exams) by academic course, and each course has its separate Web page in the system; ~ll materials placed on electronic reserve will be listed on the Web page for that specific course. Students can view a document by clicking on the document's title on the course page. Documents can be viewed, downloaded, or printed. These electronic reserve materials will be accessible to our users from any Web station in our Libraries, campus computing centers or residence halls.
We are excited about the convenience and broad accessibility this system will provide for users of reserve materials. We believe that this is an important use of technology to ease access to frequently-used materials whic.h faculty place on reserve for theIr courses.
Linda Gunter Access Services. ext 73979 19unter@rocky.claremont.edu
Compustat Is Here!
Professors teaching in the business management and economics programs of The Colleges h~ve encouraged The Libraries to provide access to Compustat for years. Now, through the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation and CMC's Economics Department, we will provide access to Compustat's PC Plus, at least though August 1999. Strong use statistics will help us support future funding requests. .
Compustat provides extensive financial information on over 19,000 companies. It contains 20 years. of data on actively traded companIes (about 10,700 U.S. and 900 Ca~adian companies) as well as infonnatlOn on over 8,000 inactive companies that have been acquired, gone bankrupt, or for other reasons are no longer being traded. It also has 20 years ofmonthly stock prices and other market data and up to 20 years of key monthly economic statistics.
The flexibility of the software allows both novice and expert to use the system effectively. The novice can choose pre-defined standard report formats covering Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flow
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CONNECTIONS is published and distributed semi-annually.
Contributors: Gale Burrow, Amy Buse, Bonnie Clemens, Candace Czerwinski, Glenda Ebersole, Kimberly Franklin, Linda Gunter, Carrie Marsh, Kimberly Mosshart, Adam Rosenkranz, Cynthia Snyder, Jill Vassilakos-Long, Dan Wilson.
Editon.: Gale Burrow/Glenda Ebersole.
Suggestions/comments: Glenda E~ersole, Graphic Communication Specialist, The Honnold/Mudd Library, ext. 73958, gebersole@rocky. claremont.edu.
3/ CONNECTIONS a newsletterfrom the libraries to the faculty ofThe Claremont Colleges
Campust"t cont'd.from page 3
Statements, Industry and Geographic Segment Reports, and Ratio and Trend Reports. The expert can create custom reports on any variable for any time period covered in the database. For example, a search might look for companies within an industry and rank them by returns to shareholders over any time period. Another might look for the fastest growing companies or those most quickly declining within an industry or across a range of industries. Students could run reports on any time period or on a specific group of companies. Based on data gathered, they could develop their own investment hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a different set of compal1les or years.
When used in conjunction with databases such as Investext (in General BusinessFile on the Web), NewsAbs in FirstSearch on the Web) or AliNws (in the Lexis-Ncxis News Library), we believe researchers have unparalleled opportunities for in­depth analysis.
Compustat is available in HonnolclJMudd Library as welt as at CMC and CGU. ~
Jill Vassilakos-Long Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 18921 jvlong@rocky.claremont.edu
STAFF NEWS
Where, Oh, Where Have
Staff Offices Gone?
Due to construction of the new Learning Room, as well as some personnel reassignments, several staff in Honnold/Mudd have new office locations. Email addresses and most telephone numbers have remained the same, only physical locations have changed.
The librarians and support staff previously located in the Information and Research Services (IRS) office in Mudd South Second Floor have moved to the Somfeld Room in New Library South First Floor (opposite Microforms). Joining these Somfeld tenants are Glenda Ebersole, formerly in the Administrative Offices; Ina Thomas, formerly in Interlibrary Loan; and Ruth Hiebert from the Government Publications Office. Leslie Sharp moved from IRS to the Administrative Offices.
These office assignments are not permanent: staffexpect to move again, possibly next summer. Until then, if you are unable to locate someone on the staff, or if a familiar library telephone number seems not to work, please contact the Information Desk at ext. 18150, or Library Administration at ext. 18045, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
mNew Assignments ~
Candace Czerwinsko (formerly Library Assistant for Government Publications) moved mid-August to her new position as User Support Specialist (working primarily with Blais) for Information Technology.
Glenda Ebersole (formerly Administrative Assistant in the Director's office) has been shifted to an assignment that wiLl allow her more time for the production of print and el ctronic media as Graphi Communication Specialist.
James Otto has accepted a newly created position, Digital Project SjJ€!cialist. He will transfer from prague Library (H MC campus) to Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library sometime this month. His primary responsibilites are to digitize materials in Special Collections and to manage the electronic reserves.
Leslie Sharp (formerly Library Assistant for Information and Research Services) has been given additional responsibilities as Assistantjor Budget.
Ina Thomas (formerly Head, Interlibrary Loan) has decided to change her venue, working part-time as the Database Desk Assistant for Honnold/ Mudd Search Center.
mNew Staff ~
Amy Buse has recently joined our staff as a Reference Librarian. She received an MA in History from San Diego State University where her research focused on the United States' recognition of the unification of Italy. During her research she became very interested in the influence of 19th century periodical literature and its
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impact on foreign relations. She also realized that research is much more fun than writing, and enrolled in the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science where she received her MUS. While at SJSU Amy was involved in internships at California State University, Fullerton and the University ofSouthern California: her favorite was working with the City of Los Angeles to prepare California documents. Her last stop before coming to Claremont was at Chapman University, where she was an Off-Campus Services Librarian.
Amy's non-library pursuits include walking, hiking, bike riding, and watching water polo games. Her favorite high school water polo team is El Dorado High School in Placentia, which is partially due to the fact that a good friend coaches there. Therefore, it is no surprise to learn she is very excited to hear that The Claremont Colleges have women's and men's water polo teams.
Amy looks forward to providing research assistance and instruction at both Honnold/Mudd and Denison as well as selecting materials in Religion and Women's Studies. She encourages all to visit her at the reference desk, and welcomes materials suggestions from faculty in the areas of Religion and Women's Studies. You can email her at amybuse@rocky.claremont.edu.
Kimberly Franklin joined The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges in July as a Reference Librarian at Honnold/Mudd Library. She will be select­ing library materials to support the CoJ,Ieges' programs in Black, Chicano, and
cultural studies; teaching classes in the use of library re­
sources; and providing referen e rvice in the Honnold!
Mudd Search Center and at the Government Publications
reference desk.
Kimberly received a Master of Library and Informa­
tion Science (MUS) degree from the UCLA Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies and a B.A.
in Urban Studies from Loyola Marymount University.
While attending UCLA, she received scholarships from both the California Library Association and thc California Librarians Black Caucus. Kimberly has worked in UCLA's College Library, and in the Uni­versity's Regional Medical Library.
A native of Los Angeles, Kimberly enjoys amusement parks, music, reading, and spending time with her family. She looks forward to a rewarding and challenging experience as a librarian at The Claremont Colleges.
Vee-Wah Chow rejoined the staff in the permanent position ofScience Reference Librarian. Yee-Wah graduated from UCLA with an MUS. Her specialization in library school was information access, which provided her with training in expert system programming, search engine efficiency evaluation and users' behavior analysis. [For more information, see an earlier article in Connections, Fall 1996, at http://voxlibris.claremonLedu/ libawareness/conn96/conn96newstaff.html.]
Claudia Funes accepted a half-time position in the Administrative Offices in July. Her new responsibilities include human resources matters and student employment coordination. You may already know Claudia from her years of employment with the Human Resources Office (formerly known as Personnel/CUC) where she continues to spend her other half-time hours. ~
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!
Announcing Periodical Con~ tents Index (PCI) on the Web-a major resource for historical research in all disciplines! What is most exciting about the new PCI is its scope. It indexes journals dating back to the early 1700's up through the 1990's. Languages include English, French, German, Italian and Spanish with over seven million articles indexed in over 1,872 journals. This number is expected to grow to fifteen million articles in 3,500 journals. Scholarly journals are reprcsented, as are popular magazines. As I test drove PCI, whole new worlds opened on the screen before me: here were citations
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Perspective
This is a time ofgreat change il1 tbe Libraries as we move toward a team-based organization. [ have found cbange to be an opportunityj(Jr growtb and new challenges. [have cbanged a lot in the past nine years as technology bas entered tbe workplace and (/S I have become more educated. Not only has change presented lieU' oppor­tunities ji)r me, it has created a pll!thora of opportlll'lities and challenges for most of my co­workers. ll:ly hope is tbat our transitioning will not take too long and that the changes will velY positive~v aJfect tlw services provided to The Claremont Collegl!s'community. [(vou have an occasion to {Jllmp into someone like me tbat basn't finished making tbe transition, please be patient.
-Glenda Ebersole, HO/'lnold/Mudd­
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New Full-text Databases in Literature
Literature Online (LION) and Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman are new resources for literary scholars. Literature Online, from Chadwyck-Healey, provides web access to several full-text databases of English and American literature. Chadwyck-Healey describes the various LION databases:
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African-American Poetry (1750-1900): nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;
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American Poetry (1600-1900): over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century;
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The Bible in English (990-1970): 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century;
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Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700): over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700;
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780): 77 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles, including a scanned version of Sterne s Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver~' Travels;
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English Drama (1250-1900): 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century;
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English Poetry (I 100-1900): essentially the complete English poetic canon from 1100 to 1900; over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Besides these databases, Literature Online provides links to other websites which focus on literature. Discussion forums, author pages, listings of electronic journals, and general literary sites have been evaluated by Chadwyck-Healey editors "to ensure that they are of high quality and that they genuinely contribute to their field of study." Literatllre Online is available at the Colleges on the Libraries' homepage (http://voxlibris.c1aremonLedu) in "Electronic Resources" or by connecting directly to LION (http://lion.chadwyck.com).
Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman provides multimedia access to Walt Whitman and his works. It includes The Collected Writings of Walt Whitmun from New York University Press, 700 manuscript images from the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording believed to be Whitman reading the poem "America," and criticism from Whitman's contemporaries. Walt Whitman is edited by Ed Folsom ofthe University of Iowa, editor of Walt Whifmun Quarterzy, and Kenneth M. Price of William and Mary, editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews. This CD-ROM is currently available only in the Honnold!Mudd
Search Center. ~ Gale Burrow Social Sciences and Humauities, ext. 73987 gbun·ow@rocky.claremont.edu
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for articles on Napoleon (including one by Chateaubriand in the Edinburgh Review) from the early nineteenth century; a German literature review from 1900 by Sigmund Freud; an article on Duke Ellington from a 1933 issue of Fortune; Hannah Arendt's 1945 book review in a 1945 issue of Commentary ofabook by Arthur Koestler; and early poems by James Merrill in a 1945 issue of
Accent.
PCI is available at the Colleges on the Libraries' homepage (http:// voxlibris.claremont.edu) in "Electronic Resources," or by connecting directly to PCI (http:// pci.chadwyck.com). If you have any questions about PCI or wish to make it a part of a library instruction session, please call Gale Burrow at ext. 73987. m
Adam Rosenkranz Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 73986 arosenkranz@rocky.claremont.edu
The End of an Era
When you enter the second floor of the Honnold building this Fall, you may notice a much larger space. If you guess that something is missing, you will be quite correct. Over the summer the Libraries undertook a 10-week, staff-intensive project to finally close the Honnold! Mudd card catalog: not as simple a task as you might guess. If you came into Honnold!Mudd this summer, you may have seen staff members allover the building with their heads buried in card catalog drawers. We were
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searching through every drawer ofthe catalog to retrieve cards representing approximately 70 different categories of Special Collections items.
In 1991 the card catalog became inactive. No new titles have been added, nor have any other changes been made since then: for example, holdings for the Francis Bacon Foundation library were still there. The general collections of the Libraries have been accessible through Blais since it arrived in 1990; however, much of the Libraries' wealth of Special Collections is not yet in Blais. The card catalog provided access. Meg Garrett, who organized this project, Joyce Sedore, and Deborah McVeigh revicwed each drawer and transferred the Special Co'llections cards we retrieved into a new, trimmer "Special Collections only" card catalog that you will still find on the second floor of Honnold.
During the course of this project, we searched through over 2.5 million cards in 2,520 drawers in 42 card catalog cabinets. Most library employees managed to search 2-3 drawers a day. The record belongs to Liz Lemon who did twelve drawers in one day. Meg kept a "barometer" of our progress on a poster to which staffoccasionally attached interesting titles or subject headings they had discovered.
Over ten percent of the cards moved into the Special Collections catalog. But some two million were discarded. A few people-both patrons and staff-took cards as souvenirs. The Libraries now have a wealth of scratch cards that may last us well into the next century. Most cards were recycled. One day a very concerned patron returned a handful of cards, indicating he had found them on the ground near our loading dock. Evidently they had managed to escape from the recycling truck as it was pulling out. These cards were quickly named "the ones that familiar with Blais, please know that wouldn't go away." After learning of staff in all the Libraries will be happy the nature of our project, that patron to help you use our online catalog to promised to be less observant in the find the materials you need. ~ future!
N ow that the era of the
Dan Wilson
Honnold/Mudd card catalog has
Social Sciences and
passed, we will all be relying on Blais
Humanities, ext. 77102
on the Web for information about the
gdwilson@rocky.claremont.edu
Libraries' collections. If you are not
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about copy services to this email address at the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges:
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We will read your messages and work with the vendor, Ikon Office Solutions, to respond to your copy services needs.
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The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges
Subject Specialists
The librarians listed below have academic backgrounds and experiences that make them especially knowledgeable in specific subject areas. They can assist you with the ordering of materials; they can provide you with infonnation on the acquisitions budget and with infonnation on the strengths and weaknesses of the collections. Often they remain a hidden resource. Please utilize the skills ofthese librarians; take advantage ofthe service that they can provide and give them a call at the number indicated. Good collections will best be built as a result of the active collaboration of the subject specialists
and faculty.
SUBJECT AREA BIBLIOGRAPHER LIBRARY EXTENSION
Humanities & Social Sciences
Anthropology Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Art Carrie Marsh Denison/Honnold 73942
Asian Studies Isamu Miura Honnold 18916
Grace Chen Honnold 73970
Black Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Business Jill Vassilakos-Long Honnold 18921
Chicano Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Classics Carrie Marsh Denison/Honnold 73942
Criminal Justice Cynthia Snyder Honnold 77106
Cultural Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Dance Judy Harvey Sahak Denison 18973
Drama Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Economics Linda Gunter Honnold 73979
Education Judy Moser Honnold 18919
Engli h & American Literature Gale Burrow Honnold 73987
Government Ruth Hiebert Honnold 77122
Government Publica 10ns, U.S. Government Publications, California Mary artin Ruth Hiebert Honn Id Honnold 18923 77122
History and the History of Ideas Adam Rosenkranz Honnold 73986
Humanities & Fine Arts, Denison Judy Harvey Sahak Denison 18973
Information Science Linda Gunter Honnold 73979
International Relations Mary Martin Honnold 18923
Languages & Linguistics Martha Smith Honnold 73997
Latin American Studies Martha Smith Honnold 73997
Law Mary Martin Honnold 18923
Media Studies Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Music Betty Roleder Honnold 77104
Philosophy Psychology Refer nee Adam Rosenkranz Meg Garrett Martha Smith Honnold Honnold Honnold 73986 77101 73997
Religion Sociology Special Collections Amy Buse Cynthia Snyder Judy Harvey Sahak Jean Beckner Honnold Honnold Denison/Honnold Honnold 77957 77106 18973 73977
Western Americana Jean Beckner Honnold 73977
Women's Studies Amy Buse Judy Harvey Sahak Honnold Denison 77957 18973
Science & Technology Chemistry Computer Science Engineering Geology Life Sciences Brian Ebersole Yee-Wah Chow Yee-Wah Chow Brian Ebersole Brian Ebersole Mudd Science Sprague Sprague Mudd Science Mudd Science 18924 77437 77437 18924 18924
Mathematics Kimberly Mosshart Honnold 18014
Brian Ebersole Mudd Science 18924
Physics!Astronomy Brian Ebersole Yee-Wah Chow Mudd Science Sprague 18924 77437
Science, Technology and Society Brian Ebersole Mudd Science 18924
Rev. 9/97
Exhibits at the Libraries
Vision is the theme of this Fall's exhibitions at the Libraries. From war in Russia, to the founding of a new women's college in Claremont, to emerging trends in teaching and in the making of art, all of the exhibits on view this semester explore the ability of human beings to dream it then make it so.
"Reading at Oxford" explores the culture ofbooks and libraries at Oxford University. Curated by Dr. Susan
M. Allen, Head of Special Collections at UCLA, and former head of Special Collections at Honnold/Mudd Library, the exhibit is on view through September at Honnold/Mudd.
In honor of the late CGU professor Fred Warner Neal, "Revolutionary Images: Eighty Years After the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921," at Honnold/Mudd Library from October through January, will feature photographs, pamphlets, books, and other materials from this era found in several Russian collections in Special Collections. If you have questions about exhibits at Honnold/Mudd Library, please phone Special Collections at ext. 73977.
A display of design and construction documents about the Libraries' new state-of-thc-art learning room is located outside of the Libraries' Administrative Offices, second floor, Honnold/Mudd Library. While construction carries on throughout the fall semester, anyone interested in using the new classroom for library instruction this spring can view the exhibit now and find out about its features. For more information, please contact Gale Burrow at ext. 73987.
The Librarie,'i a/The Claremont Colleges
800 North Dartmouth Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-3991
"Seventy Septembers: Celebrating the Opening of Scripps College, 1927" is on exhibit at Denison Library through October. To mark this important event in the history of The Colleges and womcn's education, a variety of material from the Scripps College Archives will be displayed, including scrapbooks, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia of women from the first Scripps class.
On view from November through December will be "Prints Charming: Varieties of Printmaking in Contemporary Books," with examples drawn from the fine printing and artist's book collections in the Rare Book Room of Denison Library. Today's artists and printers are using traditional printmaking techniques in new ways, and this exhibition will explore how these artists are pushing the boundaries of book illustration using traditional methods. For more information please contact Denison Library at ext. 73941. '
We are happy to work with faculty and classes on ideas for exhibits in the Libraries. The special collections ofthe Libraries are rich with holdings which support the learning and teaching ventures of the Colleges. We encourage you to bring your students to view the exhibits and to talk to the staff of the Libraries about collaborating on future projects. ~
Carrie Marsh Social Sciences and Humanites ext. 73977, 73942 cmarsh@rocky.claremont.edu
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CONNECTIONS
FEATURES
BLAIS ON THE WEB
LEARNING ROOM
ELECTRONIC RESERVES
COMPUSTAT
STAFF NEWS
SUBJEct SPECIALISTS
PERIODICAL CONTENTS INDEX
LITERATURE ONLINE (LION)
CARD CATALOG
EXHIBITS
a newsletter from the libraries to the faculty of The Claremont Colleges
FALL 1997 Volume 8 Number 1
MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR
Two years ago in this column, I wrote about "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" (http://voxlibris.claremonLedu/Libawareness/Library2000.html).This document was developed by members of Library Council in 1994/95, and accepted by the Council ofPresidents in Fall of 1995. Since then, "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" has been used as a guide to help us achieve a balance between an increasing emphasis on the electronic library and the need for continued support of the traditional library. Specifically, we have held before us the vision of using the World Wide Web as a central unifying force for our information services and resources. At the same time, we have concentrated on increasing the number ofstaff who assist users of our services as well as on improving access to information resources for support of learning and teaching.
At the time it was written, the goals and plans espoused in the "Establishing" document seemed difficult to achieve by the year 2000. Nevertheless, we have made significant progress in two short years. This progress is the direct result of strong support by the Council of Presidents, support that is evident not only through increases to the Libralies' operating and materials budgets, but also by the Presidents' commitment to the fund raising campaign for the Libraries.
Operating budget increases beginning in 1995/96 have allowed us to add the equivalent of 3.5 full-time permanent positions as well as fund ongoing technology expenses. Inflationary increases have provided solid support for maintaining purchasing power of the materials budget. With grant funds from the Ahmanson Foundation, we have positioned ourselves to take advantage of Web technology by substantially upgrading the wiring infrastructure in the Libraries, replacing both public access equipment and library servers, and adding Web-based modules to our library systems along with a number ofnew electronic resources. All but one ofour major resources are now offered via a Web interface. In addition, W. M. Keck Foundation funds are being used to build a state-of-the-art library learning room, establish a virtual reserve reading room, and fund three new, temporary positions which will allow us to focus on improving instruction, digitizing many of our unique resources, and improving our Web technical support. Other campaign funds raised thus far by the Colleges will endow Western Americana, government publications, and other resources as well as provide for substantial improvements in housing our traditional collections through the purchase and installation of compact shelving in Honnold/Mudd Library.
Although we are not yet half-way through the five year period covered in the "Establishing a Library for the Year 2000" planning document, it is time to do more than simply take stock and enumerate our achievements. This Fall, I will put before Library Council and Libraries staff the challenge ofreviewing, revising, and refining our plans for the Year 2000. With the help of our entire community, we will stlive to achieve the same rate of improvements to services and resources in the next three years that we have experienced in the past two. m-
Bonnie Clemens Director ofLibraries, ext. 18045 bclemens@rocky.claremont.edu
DENISON HONNOLD/MUDD SEELEY G. MUDD SCIENCE SPRAGUE
Blais on the Web
What happened to the Blais terminals?
If you've come into any of the Libraries lately, you've probably noticed that the Blais terminals in the search centers are gone. But Blais has not disappeared! In the main search centers, we have replaced "dumb terminals" with PC workstations which allow web-based access for searching Blais, Ovid, FirstSearch and our other electronic resources. You will see plain old Blais terminals in other parts of the buildings which allow you to look up a call number without having to run down four flights of stairs.
Is it still Blais?
Yes, it is. First introduced in 1990, and named after Colleges founder James Blaisdell, Blais is starting its eighth year as the Libraries' online public access catalog (OPAC). Each year has brought improvements to the catalog as we've tried to meet the needs of our users. In recent years, we've
expanded keyword searching capabilities, introduced patron initiated renewal for borrowed library
materials, and begun offering email notification of recall and overdue notices.
We are now stepping up to the plate to take advantage of the po~er of the World Wide Web. InnovatIve Interfaces, Inc. (III), who makes the software that is Blais, is moving quickly to an entirely web-based, Java-enabled system. The online catalog, which they call Webpac, came out last year and we made that available as soon as we could. Other modules, including acquisitions, serials, circulation, and cataloging, wilI be installed over the next three years. III is committed to this "path to the Millennium," as they like to call it, and we are conunitted to going with them.
Does it look and behave like the old Blais?
Although it does look different from old Blais, you still use the same categories (author, title, subject, keyword, etc.) to search for materials in our Libraries. And Blais on the Web has important enhancements beyond its "point-and-click" functional ity.
The World Wide Web now makes it possible to gain access to resources located anywhere in the world. Blais is becoming more than just a listing of books, journal titles, governmcnt publications, and Special Collections that we have here in Claremont; it is our gateway to the world (wide web) of scholarly
information. As we add URLs (uniform resource locators­addresses of rcsources available on the web) into catalog records for electronic journals and other web­based resources that we subscribe to, those hypertext links in Blais bring to your desktop the full-text of articles complete with images, graphs and
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The interaction of our Ovid system, which provides access to many journal citation databases, and Blais is another compelling
reason for having Blais on the web. Our journal holdings statements (for example, "Honnold has v.1
(1969)-; Denison has CURRENT YEAR ONLY") are pulled from Blais into Ovid records, allowing our users to see right away whether or not we have the journal they are interested in and which volumes we own. And if we have a subscription to that journal in an electronic format on the Web, a hypertext link allows you to move directly from the Ovid citation to full-text on the web.
These are exciting, challenging and changing times! We want to take advantage of the Web and use Web technology to enhance our online catalog and our other electronic resources. But if you still want character-based access to our online catalog, it is available: telnet:// library.claremont.edu, login is library, type b for Blais, v then y. m
Kimberly Mosshart, Information Technology, ext 18014 lanosshart@rocky.claremont.edu
Candace Czerwinski, 1nformation Technology. ext. 77848 czerwinski@rocky.claremont.edu
Keck Learning 'Room Begins Constructiotn
You and your students have consistently told us that providing hands-on instruction in the use ofour electronic resources would greatly enhance the Libraries' instructional program. This Fall construction will begin on the Keck Learning Room, a state-of-the-art faci Iity whjch wi11 bring the opportunity for hands-on learning to the Libraries.
The Keck Learning Room, which will be used for instruction in use of library resources, will be located adjacent to the Search Center in Honnold/Mudd, just south of the multi-tier stack. When completed, it will provide sixteen hands-on workstations with seating for thirty­two students, projection equipment for data and video, a satellite downlink for teleconferencing, and additional workstations for multimedia viewing and authoring.
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Since construction will be going on during fall semester, you are likely to think the Search Cen~er rather noisy at times. We apologize for the disturbance and trust that you will find our new Learning Room well worth the noise when it is complete. .
The Keck Learning Room IS made possible by a grant focused on learning through the Libraries from the W. M. Keck Foundation. ~
Gale Burrow Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 73987 gburrow@rocky.claremont.edu
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Electronic Course Reserves
As the Fall semester begins, the Libraries are preparing to provide a pilot group of web-based electronic course reserve materials for the use of students, faculty and staff ofThe Claremont Colleges. We are using a program called ERes, the Electronic Reserve System, from Docu­tek Information Systems. At present, we are installing equipment, developing procedures, and training staff to use and support the ERes system for scanning documents and creating course pages.
ERes is a World Wide Web application that allows us to ~ake documents in many formats available electronically. You can view a test installation of this system at http://www-test.scu.edu/eres.
ERes organizes documents (for example, journal articles, homewo~'k solutions, and exams) by academic course, and each course has its separate Web page in the system; ~ll materials placed on electronic reserve will be listed on the Web page for that specific course. Students can view a document by clicking on the document's title on the course page. Documents can be viewed, downloaded, or printed. These electronic reserve materials will be accessible to our users from any Web station in our Libraries, campus computing centers or residence halls.
We are excited about the convenience and broad accessibility this system will provide for users of reserve materials. We believe that this is an important use of technology to ease access to frequently-used materials whic.h faculty place on reserve for theIr courses.
Linda Gunter Access Services. ext 73979 19unter@rocky.claremont.edu
Compustat Is Here!
Professors teaching in the business management and economics programs of The Colleges h~ve encouraged The Libraries to provide access to Compustat for years. Now, through the generosity of the Ahmanson Foundation and CMC's Economics Department, we will provide access to Compustat's PC Plus, at least though August 1999. Strong use statistics will help us support future funding requests. .
Compustat provides extensive financial information on over 19,000 companies. It contains 20 years. of data on actively traded companIes (about 10,700 U.S. and 900 Ca~adian companies) as well as infonnatlOn on over 8,000 inactive companies that have been acquired, gone bankrupt, or for other reasons are no longer being traded. It also has 20 years ofmonthly stock prices and other market data and up to 20 years of key monthly economic statistics.
The flexibility of the software allows both novice and expert to use the system effectively. The novice can choose pre-defined standard report formats covering Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flow
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Contributors: Gale Burrow, Amy Buse, Bonnie Clemens, Candace Czerwinski, Glenda Ebersole, Kimberly Franklin, Linda Gunter, Carrie Marsh, Kimberly Mosshart, Adam Rosenkranz, Cynthia Snyder, Jill Vassilakos-Long, Dan Wilson.
Editon.: Gale Burrow/Glenda Ebersole.
Suggestions/comments: Glenda E~ersole, Graphic Communication Specialist, The Honnold/Mudd Library, ext. 73958, gebersole@rocky. claremont.edu.
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Statements, Industry and Geographic Segment Reports, and Ratio and Trend Reports. The expert can create custom reports on any variable for any time period covered in the database. For example, a search might look for companies within an industry and rank them by returns to shareholders over any time period. Another might look for the fastest growing companies or those most quickly declining within an industry or across a range of industries. Students could run reports on any time period or on a specific group of companies. Based on data gathered, they could develop their own investment hypotheses, then test the hypotheses using a different set of compal1les or years.
When used in conjunction with databases such as Investext (in General BusinessFile on the Web), NewsAbs in FirstSearch on the Web) or AliNws (in the Lexis-Ncxis News Library), we believe researchers have unparalleled opportunities for in­depth analysis.
Compustat is available in HonnolclJMudd Library as welt as at CMC and CGU. ~
Jill Vassilakos-Long Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 18921 jvlong@rocky.claremont.edu
STAFF NEWS
Where, Oh, Where Have
Staff Offices Gone?
Due to construction of the new Learning Room, as well as some personnel reassignments, several staff in Honnold/Mudd have new office locations. Email addresses and most telephone numbers have remained the same, only physical locations have changed.
The librarians and support staff previously located in the Information and Research Services (IRS) office in Mudd South Second Floor have moved to the Somfeld Room in New Library South First Floor (opposite Microforms). Joining these Somfeld tenants are Glenda Ebersole, formerly in the Administrative Offices; Ina Thomas, formerly in Interlibrary Loan; and Ruth Hiebert from the Government Publications Office. Leslie Sharp moved from IRS to the Administrative Offices.
These office assignments are not permanent: staffexpect to move again, possibly next summer. Until then, if you are unable to locate someone on the staff, or if a familiar library telephone number seems not to work, please contact the Information Desk at ext. 18150, or Library Administration at ext. 18045, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
mNew Assignments ~
Candace Czerwinsko (formerly Library Assistant for Government Publications) moved mid-August to her new position as User Support Specialist (working primarily with Blais) for Information Technology.
Glenda Ebersole (formerly Administrative Assistant in the Director's office) has been shifted to an assignment that wiLl allow her more time for the production of print and el ctronic media as Graphi Communication Specialist.
James Otto has accepted a newly created position, Digital Project SjJ€!cialist. He will transfer from prague Library (H MC campus) to Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library sometime this month. His primary responsibilites are to digitize materials in Special Collections and to manage the electronic reserves.
Leslie Sharp (formerly Library Assistant for Information and Research Services) has been given additional responsibilities as Assistantjor Budget.
Ina Thomas (formerly Head, Interlibrary Loan) has decided to change her venue, working part-time as the Database Desk Assistant for Honnold/ Mudd Search Center.
mNew Staff ~
Amy Buse has recently joined our staff as a Reference Librarian. She received an MA in History from San Diego State University where her research focused on the United States' recognition of the unification of Italy. During her research she became very interested in the influence of 19th century periodical literature and its
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impact on foreign relations. She also realized that research is much more fun than writing, and enrolled in the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science where she received her MUS. While at SJSU Amy was involved in internships at California State University, Fullerton and the University ofSouthern California: her favorite was working with the City of Los Angeles to prepare California documents. Her last stop before coming to Claremont was at Chapman University, where she was an Off-Campus Services Librarian.
Amy's non-library pursuits include walking, hiking, bike riding, and watching water polo games. Her favorite high school water polo team is El Dorado High School in Placentia, which is partially due to the fact that a good friend coaches there. Therefore, it is no surprise to learn she is very excited to hear that The Claremont Colleges have women's and men's water polo teams.
Amy looks forward to providing research assistance and instruction at both Honnold/Mudd and Denison as well as selecting materials in Religion and Women's Studies. She encourages all to visit her at the reference desk, and welcomes materials suggestions from faculty in the areas of Religion and Women's Studies. You can email her at amybuse@rocky.claremont.edu.
Kimberly Franklin joined The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges in July as a Reference Librarian at Honnold/Mudd Library. She will be select­ing library materials to support the CoJ,Ieges' programs in Black, Chicano, and
cultural studies; teaching classes in the use of library re­
sources; and providing referen e rvice in the Honnold!
Mudd Search Center and at the Government Publications
reference desk.
Kimberly received a Master of Library and Informa­
tion Science (MUS) degree from the UCLA Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies and a B.A.
in Urban Studies from Loyola Marymount University.
While attending UCLA, she received scholarships from both the California Library Association and thc California Librarians Black Caucus. Kimberly has worked in UCLA's College Library, and in the Uni­versity's Regional Medical Library.
A native of Los Angeles, Kimberly enjoys amusement parks, music, reading, and spending time with her family. She looks forward to a rewarding and challenging experience as a librarian at The Claremont Colleges.
Vee-Wah Chow rejoined the staff in the permanent position ofScience Reference Librarian. Yee-Wah graduated from UCLA with an MUS. Her specialization in library school was information access, which provided her with training in expert system programming, search engine efficiency evaluation and users' behavior analysis. [For more information, see an earlier article in Connections, Fall 1996, at http://voxlibris.claremonLedu/ libawareness/conn96/conn96newstaff.html.]
Claudia Funes accepted a half-time position in the Administrative Offices in July. Her new responsibilities include human resources matters and student employment coordination. You may already know Claudia from her years of employment with the Human Resources Office (formerly known as Personnel/CUC) where she continues to spend her other half-time hours. ~
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!
Announcing Periodical Con~ tents Index (PCI) on the Web-a major resource for historical research in all disciplines! What is most exciting about the new PCI is its scope. It indexes journals dating back to the early 1700's up through the 1990's. Languages include English, French, German, Italian and Spanish with over seven million articles indexed in over 1,872 journals. This number is expected to grow to fifteen million articles in 3,500 journals. Scholarly journals are reprcsented, as are popular magazines. As I test drove PCI, whole new worlds opened on the screen before me: here were citations
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Perspective
This is a time ofgreat change il1 tbe Libraries as we move toward a team-based organization. [ have found cbange to be an opportunityj(Jr growtb and new challenges. [have cbanged a lot in the past nine years as technology bas entered tbe workplace and (/S I have become more educated. Not only has change presented lieU' oppor­tunities ji)r me, it has created a pll!thora of opportlll'lities and challenges for most of my co­workers. ll:ly hope is tbat our transitioning will not take too long and that the changes will velY positive~v aJfect tlw services provided to The Claremont Collegl!s'community. [(vou have an occasion to {Jllmp into someone like me tbat basn't finished making tbe transition, please be patient.
-Glenda Ebersole, HO/'lnold/Mudd­
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New Full-text Databases in Literature
Literature Online (LION) and Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman are new resources for literary scholars. Literature Online, from Chadwyck-Healey, provides web access to several full-text databases of English and American literature. Chadwyck-Healey describes the various LION databases:
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African-American Poetry (1750-1900): nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;
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American Poetry (1600-1900): over 40,000 poems by more than 200 American poets from the Colonial Period to the early twentieth century;
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The Bible in English (990-1970): 20 different versions of the English Bible from the tenth to the twentieth century;
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Early English Prose Fiction (1500-1700): over 200 complete works in fictional prose from the period 1500-1700;
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Eighteenth-Century Fiction (1700-1780): 77 complete works in English prose from the period 1700-1780, by writers from the British Isles, including a scanned version of Sterne s Tristram Shandy, and two different editions of Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and of Swift's Gulliver~' Travels;
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English Drama (1250-1900): 4,000 plays by 1,200 authors from the late thirteenth century to the early twentieth century;
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English Poetry (I 100-1900): essentially the complete English poetic canon from 1100 to 1900; over 165,000 poems by more than 1,250 poets drawn from nearly 4,500 printed sources.
Besides these databases, Literature Online provides links to other websites which focus on literature. Discussion forums, author pages, listings of electronic journals, and general literary sites have been evaluated by Chadwyck-Healey editors "to ensure that they are of high quality and that they genuinely contribute to their field of study." Literatllre Online is available at the Colleges on the Libraries' homepage (http://voxlibris.c1aremonLedu) in "Electronic Resources" or by connecting directly to LION (http://lion.chadwyck.com).
Major Authors on CD-ROM: Walt Whitman provides multimedia access to Walt Whitman and his works. It includes The Collected Writings of Walt Whitmun from New York University Press, 700 manuscript images from the Feinberg Collection at the Library of Congress, over 100 images of Whitman, an archival recording believed to be Whitman reading the poem "America," and criticism from Whitman's contemporaries. Walt Whitman is edited by Ed Folsom ofthe University of Iowa, editor of Walt Whifmun Quarterzy, and Kenneth M. Price of William and Mary, editor of Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews. This CD-ROM is currently available only in the Honnold!Mudd
Search Center. ~ Gale Burrow Social Sciences and Humauities, ext. 73987 gbun·ow@rocky.claremont.edu
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for articles on Napoleon (including one by Chateaubriand in the Edinburgh Review) from the early nineteenth century; a German literature review from 1900 by Sigmund Freud; an article on Duke Ellington from a 1933 issue of Fortune; Hannah Arendt's 1945 book review in a 1945 issue of Commentary ofabook by Arthur Koestler; and early poems by James Merrill in a 1945 issue of
Accent.
PCI is available at the Colleges on the Libraries' homepage (http:// voxlibris.claremont.edu) in "Electronic Resources," or by connecting directly to PCI (http:// pci.chadwyck.com). If you have any questions about PCI or wish to make it a part of a library instruction session, please call Gale Burrow at ext. 73987. m
Adam Rosenkranz Social Sciences and Humanities, ext. 73986 arosenkranz@rocky.claremont.edu
The End of an Era
When you enter the second floor of the Honnold building this Fall, you may notice a much larger space. If you guess that something is missing, you will be quite correct. Over the summer the Libraries undertook a 10-week, staff-intensive project to finally close the Honnold! Mudd card catalog: not as simple a task as you might guess. If you came into Honnold!Mudd this summer, you may have seen staff members allover the building with their heads buried in card catalog drawers. We were
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searching through every drawer ofthe catalog to retrieve cards representing approximately 70 different categories of Special Collections items.
In 1991 the card catalog became inactive. No new titles have been added, nor have any other changes been made since then: for example, holdings for the Francis Bacon Foundation library were still there. The general collections of the Libraries have been accessible through Blais since it arrived in 1990; however, much of the Libraries' wealth of Special Collections is not yet in Blais. The card catalog provided access. Meg Garrett, who organized this project, Joyce Sedore, and Deborah McVeigh revicwed each drawer and transferred the Special Co'llections cards we retrieved into a new, trimmer "Special Collections only" card catalog that you will still find on the second floor of Honnold.
During the course of this project, we searched through over 2.5 million cards in 2,520 drawers in 42 card catalog cabinets. Most library employees managed to search 2-3 drawers a day. The record belongs to Liz Lemon who did twelve drawers in one day. Meg kept a "barometer" of our progress on a poster to which staffoccasionally attached interesting titles or subject headings they had discovered.
Over ten percent of the cards moved into the Special Collections catalog. But some two million were discarded. A few people-both patrons and staff-took cards as souvenirs. The Libraries now have a wealth of scratch cards that may last us well into the next century. Most cards were recycled. One day a very concerned patron returned a handful of cards, indicating he had found them on the ground near our loading dock. Evidently they had managed to escape from the recycling truck as it was pulling out. These cards were quickly named "the ones that familiar with Blais, please know that wouldn't go away." After learning of staff in all the Libraries will be happy the nature of our project, that patron to help you use our online catalog to promised to be less observant in the find the materials you need. ~ future!
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Subject Specialists
The librarians listed below have academic backgrounds and experiences that make them especially knowledgeable in specific subject areas. They can assist you with the ordering of materials; they can provide you with infonnation on the acquisitions budget and with infonnation on the strengths and weaknesses of the collections. Often they remain a hidden resource. Please utilize the skills ofthese librarians; take advantage ofthe service that they can provide and give them a call at the number indicated. Good collections will best be built as a result of the active collaboration of the subject specialists
and faculty.
SUBJECT AREA BIBLIOGRAPHER LIBRARY EXTENSION
Humanities & Social Sciences
Anthropology Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Art Carrie Marsh Denison/Honnold 73942
Asian Studies Isamu Miura Honnold 18916
Grace Chen Honnold 73970
Black Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Business Jill Vassilakos-Long Honnold 18921
Chicano Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Classics Carrie Marsh Denison/Honnold 73942
Criminal Justice Cynthia Snyder Honnold 77106
Cultural Studies Kimberly Franklin Honnold 77956
Dance Judy Harvey Sahak Denison 18973
Drama Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Economics Linda Gunter Honnold 73979
Education Judy Moser Honnold 18919
Engli h & American Literature Gale Burrow Honnold 73987
Government Ruth Hiebert Honnold 77122
Government Publica 10ns, U.S. Government Publications, California Mary artin Ruth Hiebert Honn Id Honnold 18923 77122
History and the History of Ideas Adam Rosenkranz Honnold 73986
Humanities & Fine Arts, Denison Judy Harvey Sahak Denison 18973
Information Science Linda Gunter Honnold 73979
International Relations Mary Martin Honnold 18923
Languages & Linguistics Martha Smith Honnold 73997
Latin American Studies Martha Smith Honnold 73997
Law Mary Martin Honnold 18923
Media Studies Meg Garrett Honnold 77101
Music Betty Roleder Honnold 77104
Philosophy Psychology Refer nee Adam Rosenkranz Meg Garrett Martha Smith Honnold Honnold Honnold 73986 77101 73997
Religion Sociology Special Collections Amy Buse Cynthia Snyder Judy Harvey Sahak Jean Beckner Honnold Honnold Denison/Honnold Honnold 77957 77106 18973 73977
Western Americana Jean Beckner Honnold 73977
Women's Studies Amy Buse Judy Harvey Sahak Honnold Denison 77957 18973
Science & Technology Chemistry Computer Science Engineering Geology Life Sciences Brian Ebersole Yee-Wah Chow Yee-Wah Chow Brian Ebersole Brian Ebersole Mudd Science Sprague Sprague Mudd Science Mudd Science 18924 77437 77437 18924 18924
Mathematics Kimberly Mosshart Honnold 18014
Brian Ebersole Mudd Science 18924
Physics!Astronomy Brian Ebersole Yee-Wah Chow Mudd Science Sprague 18924 77437
Science, Technology and Society Brian Ebersole Mudd Science 18924
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Exhibits at the Libraries
Vision is the theme of this Fall's exhibitions at the Libraries. From war in Russia, to the founding of a new women's college in Claremont, to emerging trends in teaching and in the making of art, all of the exhibits on view this semester explore the ability of human beings to dream it then make it so.
"Reading at Oxford" explores the culture ofbooks and libraries at Oxford University. Curated by Dr. Susan
M. Allen, Head of Special Collections at UCLA, and former head of Special Collections at Honnold/Mudd Library, the exhibit is on view through September at Honnold/Mudd.
In honor of the late CGU professor Fred Warner Neal, "Revolutionary Images: Eighty Years After the Russian Revolution, 1917-1921," at Honnold/Mudd Library from October through January, will feature photographs, pamphlets, books, and other materials from this era found in several Russian collections in Special Collections. If you have questions about exhibits at Honnold/Mudd Library, please phone Special Collections at ext. 73977.
A display of design and construction documents about the Libraries' new state-of-thc-art learning room is located outside of the Libraries' Administrative Offices, second floor, Honnold/Mudd Library. While construction carries on throughout the fall semester, anyone interested in using the new classroom for library instruction this spring can view the exhibit now and find out about its features. For more information, please contact Gale Burrow at ext. 73987.
The Librarie,'i a/The Claremont Colleges
800 North Dartmouth Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-3991
"Seventy Septembers: Celebrating the Opening of Scripps College, 1927" is on exhibit at Denison Library through October. To mark this important event in the history of The Colleges and womcn's education, a variety of material from the Scripps College Archives will be displayed, including scrapbooks, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia of women from the first Scripps class.
On view from November through December will be "Prints Charming: Varieties of Printmaking in Contemporary Books," with examples drawn from the fine printing and artist's book collections in the Rare Book Room of Denison Library. Today's artists and printers are using traditional printmaking techniques in new ways, and this exhibition will explore how these artists are pushing the boundaries of book illustration using traditional methods. For more information please contact Denison Library at ext. 73941. '
We are happy to work with faculty and classes on ideas for exhibits in the Libraries. The special collections ofthe Libraries are rich with holdings which support the learning and teaching ventures of the Colleges. We encourage you to bring your students to view the exhibits and to talk to the staff of the Libraries about collaborating on future projects. ~
Carrie Marsh Social Sciences and Humanites ext. 73977, 73942 cmarsh@rocky.claremont.edu
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